What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Hell is the inability to love.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Beauty would save the world.